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Qatar Export Revenues Fall 30% In 2020
...s current level of 77mn t/y in 2011. The figure is considerably lower than at the height of the collapse precipitated by the oil price slump from late 2014. Then annual revenues bottomed out at $57.3bn in 2016 (see chart 1). However, Qatar has had considerable success in reducing its import tab in...
Volume: 64Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2021 -
Jordan Plans Tax Hike To Cover Planned 2019 Deficit
...factors outside its control (see chart). The 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ was the turning point as it scared tourists away from the region and saw Syria collapse into civil war, pushing millions of refugees into Jordan and eliminating much of the country’s land-based trade. The rise of the Islamic State in Ir...
Volume: 62Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019 -
Syria’s Economic Woes Only Set To Intensify
...oduction in the government-controlled areas in 2014 slumped to 9,329 b/d, the Syrian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Sulaiman al-‘Abbas announced this week. This output is a mere 2.4% of average production of 385,000 b/d before the start of the uprising in March 2011 (MEES, 8 August 2011). In th...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
Lebanon Plans $1Bn Eurobond
...banon’s finances are over-stretched as it struggles to cope with the influx of some 1.5mn Syrian refugees who fled their war-torn country since early 2011. International aid to help these refugees has been minimal, and the cost of hosting them is mounting. The political impasse and spillovers from the Sy...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
Rafsanjani Criticizes IRGC’s Economic Power
...e Iranian rail network (MEES, 16 November). The previous Minister of Petroleum Rostam Qasemi, who served as managing director of Khatam al-Anbia before his appointment in August 2011, called for expansion of the role of the IRGC-affiliated engineering firm in the economy, by becoming a “re...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
UN Sees Polarized Performance In Arab Region
...anwhile Syria’s oil production (from government-controlled fields) has sunk to a new low of 13,000 b/d, or about 3.5% of 385,000 b/d at the beginning of the crisis in 2011, Syria’s Deputy Minister of Petroleum Hasan Zainab told the local daily Tishreen on 23 January. He estimates Syria’s oil-related ec...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
Mauritania Bags $850Mn
...ending heavily on food and energy subsidies and higher public sector salaries in 2011-12. Qatar was the last of the four Gulf states to sign the aid accord with Morocco....
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
Algeria Trims 2013 Budget Expenditure, But Raises Defense Allocations
...overall spending as Algiers looks to rein in a 2011 and 2012 spending splurge, intended to stave off domestic calls for political reform in the wake of the ‘Arab Spring’ revolutions in neighboring Libya and Tunisia and nearby Egypt. The budget – including the defense spending hike – was dr...
Volume: 56Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2013 -
Iran To Set Up $2Bn Support Program For The Poor
...ruggling to provide for their daily needs, the Majlis and the government have agreed to make available the proposed $2bn from the National Development Fund (NDF). The latter was established in 2011 under the fifth five-year development plan (2010-15), with the aim of converting oil and gas revenue into pr...
Volume: 56Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2013